Follow Follow

Club usage

The song has been adopted by Rangers as their club anthem. In 2007 Rangers used the song as an inspiration for the title of their initiative against unacceptable behaviour at football matches, Follow With Pride, to replace their Pride Over Prejudice campaign. There is also a Rangers fanzine named after the song. It is also called Follow Follow and has been banned from being sold outside Ibrox Stadium due to having printed articles with a sectarian related content.

Controversy

The song has gathered an amount of controversy after some fans started to sing alternative lyrics about the Pope and the Vatican City that are considered sectarian.

In 1999 Rangers' vice-chairman Donald Findlay had to stand down from his position and resign from the club's board after being filmed singing "Follow Follow" (with these alternative lyrics) and "The Sash". The Faculty of Advocates (the professional body to which Findlay belonged) found his actions were "likely to bring the faculty into disrepute" and fined him £3,500.

Saida Karoli

Karoli was born in 1976 in Rwongwe, a small village in the Bukoba Rural district in the northern Tanzanian Kagera Region on the western side of Lake Victoria. "Maria Salome", a song from her first album Chambua kama Karanga reached number three in airplay on Tanzanian radio. After the song's success in Uganda, she become popularly known there as Wanchekecha, a nickname derived from the lyrics of the song. She has entertained the Kabaka of Buganda and is an act at Zanzibar's Sauti Za Busara Festival. Most recently she was nominated for several honors at the Kora All-African Music Awards.

In style, Karoli's music is described as natural with mellow vocals and hypnotically rhythmicism. Though she sings primarily in her native tongue Haya, her lyrics also incorporate extensive Swahili (the common East African Language) and the occasional phrase in English. She is managed by Felician Mutta, the CEO of FM Productions LTO.

Ballerina

Spread your wingsCome on fly awhileStraight to my armsLittle angel childYou know you onlyLonely twenty-two story blockAnd if somebody, not just anybodyWanted to get close to youFor instance, me, babyAll you gotta doIs ring a bellStep right up, step right upAnd step right upBallerinaCrowd will catch youFly it, sigh it, try itWell, I may be wrongBut something deep in my heart tells me I'm right and I don't think soYou know I saw the writing on the wallWhen you came up to meChild, you were heading for a fallBut if it gets to youAnd you feel like you just can't go onAll you gotta doIs ring a bellStep right up, and step right upAnd step right upJust like a ballerinaStepping lightlyAlright, well it's getting lateYes it is, yes it isAnd this time I forget to slip into your slumberThe light is on the left side of your headAnd I'm standing in your doorwayAnd I'm mumbling and I can't remember the last thing that ran through my headHere come the man and he say, he say the show must go onSo all you gotta doIs ring the bellAnd step right up, and step right upAnd step right upJust like a ballerina, yeah, yeahCrowd will catch youFly it, sight it, c'mon, die it, yeahJust like a ballerinaJust like a just like a just like a ballerinaGet on up, get on up, keep a-moving on, little bit higher, babyYou know, you know, you know, get up babyAlright, a-keep on, a-keep on, a-keep on, a-keep on pushingStepping lightlyJust like a ballerinaOoo-we baby, take off your shoesWorking onJust like a ballerina